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- DirectorAmy HeckerlingStarsAlicia SilverstoneStacey DashBrittany MurphyShallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.So my favourite mobile phone scene is in ‘Clueless (1995)’ when Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash) are chatting on their phones at their high school and meet in person in a corridor while they are still talking. I still always think of that scene whenever a similar situation happens to me (not in a high school of course :) )
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.The final scenes of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ come to mind as Latika’s phone rings for the phone-a-friend and Jamal works for a mobile phone company too so there’s the amusing scene where he handles an incoming customer call if that qualifies. There are some cool advanced mobile phones in ‘Minority Report’ … well featured in the scenes towards the end. For a movie packed with crazy unbelievable mobile phone scenes, see ‘Cellular’ @
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.[link]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes?qt=qt0447151 [/link]
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenMichael DouglasTamara TunieAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.Well, there’s Gordon Gecko’s now famous cell phone. There’s a scene in Wall Street II where they return it when he gets out of the clink. It features in a great scene right at the start of the movie (and the movie “had me at hello” as a result of this scene). You can see it within the first minute of our trailer at [link]http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi875627545/[/link]
- DirectorDuncan JonesStarsJake GyllenhaalMichelle MonaghanVera FarmigaA soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.I'd have to go for one of the last scenes from Source Code, which is the best use of a cell phone as a plot device I can think of.
- CreatorSydney NewmanStarsJodie WhittakerPeter CapaldiPearl MackieThe further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and his companions from planet Earth.There are multiple scenes in the new Doctor Who that involve the Doctor fiddling with the phone of a companion to make it a cross-time-and-space phone.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsPatrick StewartHugh JackmanIan McKellenIn a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.One cell phone moment that sticks in my mind is the in the X-Men movie, when Mystique (disguised as a senate aide) takes a phone from the Senator and puts it in her jacket and then a few moments later changes to her natural (nude) form. Where did the phone go?
- DirectorGeorge NolfiStarsMatt DamonEmily BluntLisa ThoresonThe affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.The Adjustment Bureau has a good cell phone moment when the protagonist has his blackberry dropped in his coffee. You could probably make a montage of ‘phone dropped in X’ moments pretty easily.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruiseCuba Gooding Jr.Renée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.Obviously, you need to include the “show me the money” exchange between Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise (at least part of which is in the trailer at about 0:22 - [link]http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3081699609/ [/link]
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.There’s that classic moment of the mobile phone caught in the behind the scenes footage of The Circus (1928):
[link]http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mobile%20phone%201950s#q=mobile+phone+charlie+chaplin+film&hl=en&prmd=ivnso&source=lnms&tbm=vid&ei=S54JTqWnLMqwhQfJt9n8Dw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=d6ce82c71ebb0806&biw=1680&bih=926[/link] - DirectorD.J. CarusoStarsShia LaBeoufMichelle MonaghanRosario DawsonJerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.Sorry I am late to the game. Eagle Eye “You have been activated” [link]http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3270115609/[/link]
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonDanny GloverGary BuseyTwo newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.The earliest use of a mobile phone that stood out for me was in Lethal Weapon, with Danny Glover lugging a ridiculous brick, including an external battery pack
There’s a glimpse of it in the trailer at 58 secs: [link]http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3448897817/[/link]